Presented without comment, because honestly, what’s to say? This is the time we live in — where people know the pieties their to mouth, yet they believe in nothing greater than themselves, and when they think no one of importance is watching, they act precisely that way. (h/t afs)

1. Label yourself a “Realpolitik Wilsonian.” Wilson being a Progressive’s progressive, and “Realpolitik” being the political label for “pragmatist.” 2. When given the opportunity to choose the greatest 20th-century President, go with the author of the New Deal — the man whose manipulations of the SCOTUS gave us an unstoppable Commerce Clause, the man whose economic policies extended the Great Depression, and the man whose Administration propelled the growth and

Once again, I marvel at the blindness, not of the leftists — they know well what it is they’re doing, and they’re more than happy to unleash useful idiots to carry out their political messaging — but rather by rightwing opinion leaders who keep falling back on attempts to shame the left into acting responsibly, as if a good chastisement is all that’s necessary to force statists back into the

Scratch a modern-day left-liberal, find his inner China envy hiding just beneath the “reform-minded” surface: If you’re wondering why lawyers and Hollywood folks would get behind legislation to censor the Internet, you only need to listen to former Senator Chris Dodd, now the head of the MPAA, who last week explained to Variety that the lobby is only asking for the same kind of power to censor the Internet as